I haven't tried running xVM yet, so I can't help you there. However, if you're having problems getting xVM or Virtual Box to give you the Windows functionality that you want, another possible alternative for installing Microsoft Windows into a separate Solaris or OpenSolaris zone / container is to use "Win4Solaris". It has the full functionality of Microsoft Windows inside Solaris (USB, iTunes, networking, printers, everything works) as you can see in the videos below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InTXdk_FHv0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCNWB_slB-Y I think a non-commercial license for this product costs $40 and I think it is probably better and faster than running XP in virtual box because the microcode for Win4Solaris is optimized for running Microsoft Windows under Solaris with maximum efficiency and compatibility whereas Virtual Box has the more general goal of being able to run many different possible guest operating systems (OpenBSD, Red Hat, Debian, etc.) under many different possible host operating systems (Mac OS X, Windows, OpenSolaris, etc.) which makes the code more difficult to optimize for speed and Windows / Microsoft specific design eccentricities. >From what I've heard, Windows XP will run VERY fast under Win4Solaris (only a >5% CPU overhead is added from the Solaris host OS) and Win4Solaris also has >special security enhancement tools that allow you to set up Windows XP with >all the software you want installed and then make the Windows registry keys >and system files "read only" with a sticky bit so that malware and rootkits >cannot infect your Windows operating system. This is all just my opinion though, try it and find out for yourself. Sorry for copying and pasting some of this from a previous post, but if people are going to keep asking the same "How do I install Microsoft Windows inside Solaris" question over and over again, I am going to keep copying and pasting the same response over and overagain rather than re-typing everything from scratch. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
